Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance against macro level shocks in terms of automatic stabilizers. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38% of a proportional income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic...